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1. African Minorities in the New World

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi

   Series: African Studies

   This book uncovers the reality that new African immigrants now represent a significant force in the configuration of American polity and identity especially in the last forty years. Despite their minority status, African immigrants are making their marks in various areas of human endeavor and...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Trans-Atlantic Migration

   The Paradoxes of Exile

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi

   Series: African Studies

   This book argues that a new cadre of African immigrants are finding themselves in the New World—mostly well educated, high-income earning professionals, and belonging to the category termed "African brain drain," they constitute the antinomy of those Africans who were forcibly removed from Africa...

   Published April 9th 2012 by Routledge
3. Music, Performance and African Identities

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Tyler Fleming

   Series: Routledge African Studies

   Cutting across countries, genres, and time periods, this volume explores topics ranging from hip hop’s influence on Maasai identity in current day Tanzania to jazz in Bulawayo during the interwar years, using music to tell a larger story about the cultures and societies of Africa....

   Published November 17th 2011 by Routledge
4. Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Emily Brownell

   Series: Routledge African Studies

   This volume seeks to identify and examine two categories of colonial and postcolonial knowledge production about Africa. These two broad categories are "environment" and "landscape," and both are useful and problematic to explore. Discussions about African environments often concentrate on Africans...

   Published November 8th 2011 by Routledge
5. Environment and Economics in Nigeria

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Adam Paddock

   Series: Routledge African Studies

   This volume gathers contributors across a wide range of disciplines to explore the relationship between the environment, economics, and development in Nigeria from the twentieth century to the present, examining issues such as violence, health, and contemporary concerns about sustainability and...

   Published June 21st 2011 by Routledge
6. Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Fallou Ngom

   Series: Routledge African Studies

   This volume brings together insights from distinguished scholars from around the world to address the facts, fiction and creative imaginations in the pervasive portrayals of Africa, its people, societies and cultures in the literature and the media. The fictionalization of Africa and African issues...

   Published August 5th 2009 by Routledge
7. The Human Cost of African Migrations

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi

   Series: African Studies

   In an era of globalization, population growth, and displacements, migration is now a fact of life in a constantly shifting economic and political world order. This book contributes to the discourse on the beneficiaries, benefactors, and the casualties of African displacement. While the few existing...

   Published March 5th 2009 by Routledge